DS9 · SEASON 22×13

Armageddon Game

NOMADIC PICK · FUN PICKThe birth of a classic double act.
FIRST SHOWN (US)
31 January 1994
ON
First-run syndication
STARDATE
None given
DIRECTED BY
Winrich Kolbe
PRODUCTION NO.
433

WRITTEN BYWritten by Morgan Gendel

IN BRIEF

SPOILER-FREE

Bashir and O'Brien help two former enemies destroy their deadliest weapons, but when the job is finished they find themselves stranded and hunted.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS
Red alert: the full plot, ending included. Haven't watched yet?REVEAL SYNOPSISHIDE SYNOPSIS

Bashir and O'Brien spend a week helping the T'Lani and the Kellerun, two peoples ending a long war, to destroy their stockpiles of harvesters, a lethal biological weapon. As the last batch is neutralised, Kellerun soldiers storm the laboratory. The two officers escape to the surface, but O'Brien has been contaminated with the harvester agent and grows steadily sicker while Bashir tends him. The ambassadors tell Sisko that both men died in an accident and show a recording to prove it. Keiko is not convinced, insisting that her husband never drinks coffee in the afternoon. Sisko and Dax investigate and find that the runabout's logs have been altered. The two governments, determined to wipe out all knowledge of the harvesters, try to finish the job, but Sisko beams his officers to safety. Back home, Keiko learns Miles does drink afternoon coffee after all.

DID YOU KNOW?

  1. 01Writer Morgan Gendel also wrote the story for The Next Generation's Hugo-winning “The Inner Light”.
  2. 02Robert Hewitt Wolfe chose the title as a nod to the original series episode “A Taste of Armageddon”.
  3. 03Alexander Siddig called it his first two-hander on the show and the beginning of the Bashir and O'Brien friendship.
SOURCES WE CHECKED